Civilization

In practice. A law; an act of justice or judgment which renders a criminal process civil; performed by turning an information Into an Inquest or the contrary. Wharton.

In public law. This ls a term which covers several states of society; it is relative, and has not a fixed sense, but it implies an improved and progressive condition of the people, living under an organized government, with systematized labor, individual ownership of the soil, Individual aceumula-tlons of property, humane and somewhat cultivated manners and customs, the Institution of the family, with well-defined and respected domestic and social relations, Institutions of learning, intellectual activity, etc. Roche v. Washington, 19 Ind. 56, 81 Am. Dec; 376.

In practice. A law; an act of justice, or judgment which renders a criminal process civil; performed by turning an information into an inquest, or the contrary. Wharton.

In public law. This is a term which covers several states of society; it is relative, and has not a fixed sense, but it implies an improved and progressive eundition of the people, living under an organized government, with systematized labor, individual ownership of the soil, individual accumula. tions of property, humane and somewhat cultivated manners and customs, the institu. tion of the family, with well-defined and re. spected domestic and social relations, insti. CIv IsS. Lat.

In the Roman law. A citizen; as distinguished from incola, (an inhabitant;) origin or birth constituting the former, domicile the latter. Code, 10, 40, 7.